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11/29/2016 - It looks like the red state of Texas, once known for its fierce independence and as the guarantor of its citizens' freedom, is becoming something of a medical police state, having launched scores of investigations against licensed and non-licensed practitioners, many of whom are reporting being harassed...

10/5/2016 - Cigarette angst and all the associated media hysteria over the health effects of smoking have deterred millions of people from using tobacco in any way, shape or form. But new research out of Texas A&M University in College Station has revealed something about the tobacco plant that many people don't...

8/23/2016 - I'm appearing LIVE in Dallas, Texas this October 14th, 15th and 16th, as one of the headline speakers at The Truth About Cancer LIVE event. Only a few hundred tickets are remaining. This event is going to be SOLD OUT quickly, and it's a once-in-a-lifetime gathering of many of the industry's most pioneering...

8/16/2016 - Dependency on government has risen to a new level, in Texas at least, as Medicaid officials in the Lone Star State now want to provide taxpayer-supported Zika virus protection, as a 'healthcare need.'
Beginning next week, the Dallas Morning News reports, women and girls will be eligible to receive...

8/4/2016 - The Wartena family of seven was returning from vacation, traveling home to California, when they were suddenly faced with the most tragic of circumstances. The family, stopping off to lodge at the La Kiva Hotel in Texas, was unprepared for what happened next. When their seven-year-old autistic daughter,...

7/23/2016 - Buying milk about as close to nature as it gets – directly from the cow – is still a punishable offense in many areas of the U.S., and residents of the Houston, Texas, suburb of Katy were reminded of this recently, after being paid a visit by police officers for the "crime" of buying and...

7/7/2016 - The cryonic preservation of humans may become commonplace sooner than you imagine, as construction of a massive cryogenic facility in Texas is now underway.
The Timeship Building – dubbed the "Mecca of cryogenics" – is the brainchild of architect Stephen Valentine, and will be capable...

6/14/2016 - Contrary to all the promises, the increasingly exorbitant cost of health insurance under Obamacare is beginning to be revealed as Blue Cross Blue Shield prepares to implement a 60 percent rate hike for individual policies in its Texas market.
The increases will affect more than half a million Texans...

3/23/2016 - Texas Governor Greg Abbott took a step closer toward health freedom recently, when he signed new legislation permitting epileptic patients access to the powerful, healing CBD oil from hemp. Thousands of Texas families who deal with epilepsy will now be given legal access to medical marijuana. This means...

1/12/2016 - On Friday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott took a strong stance for liberty, by introducing a plan to return power to the people and states, not through armed rebellion – but by using the Constitution to essentially save the Constitution.
Abbott's plan, called Restoring the Rule of Law with States Leading...

1/10/2016 - One of the guiding legal principles in America is that in order for you to be detained for almost any reason by an officer of the law, there must be "probable cause" for you to be stopped and held against your will.
As defined by Law.com, probable cause is when an officer of the law has "sufficient...

1/8/2016 - Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a rare champion of freedom and liberty, has announced a bold plan to add nine new amendments to the U.S. Constitution. These amendments would protect states' rights and individual liberties while halting the malicious encroachment upon those liberties by a federal government...

1/6/2016 - As President Obama rolls out new executive rules on guns that could eventually result in some otherwise law-abiding Americans losing their Second Amendment rights, the governor of one state has a message for the White House: "COME AND TAKE IT."
That was a message tweeted out recently by Texas Gov....

12/12/2015 - Two gun rights groups have joined forces to stage a "theatrical mass shooting" on Saturday in Austin, Texas, demonstrating the danger of gun-free zones and the utility of open carry. On December 12, gun rights activists with Don't Comply and Come and Take it Texas will perform an open carry march around...

12/11/2015 - The TalkNetwork.com hosts of the "Don't Comply Show" (airing Monday and Thursday, 5-7pm eastern on TalkNetwork.com) are staging a mock mass shooting event just off the University of Texas campus in Austin this Saturday. (Guadalupe St.)
All mainstream and alternative media are invited to attend and...

12/2/2015 - In recent days, a 25-year-old white female drove her automobile into crowds of people who were gathered in Stillwell, Oklahoma, to watch the annual Oklahoma State University homecoming parade. When the ensuing chaos subsided, it was learned that Adacia Avery Chambers, the driver, killed four people...

11/10/2015 - Liberal policies are destroying the will of the impoverished living in inner cities, holding them down with social programs that restrict their individual freedom to succeed. Socialist ideologies have caused many poor people to fall into a cycle of envy, teaching them to hate the rich, to despise success....

11/4/2015 - Opponents of water fluoridation have finally earned a victory in the fight against fluoride! San Marcos, Texas, a college town located just 25 miles south of Austin, voted to stop adding the industrial toxin hydrofluorosilicic acid to the water yesterday with overwhelming support.
The votes in favor...

11/2/2015 - In recent days, investigators in Texas served subpoenas at three Planned Parenthood facilities in the state to ascertain whether employees there are guilty of defrauding the Medicaid program, Lifesite News reported, citing various sources.
Officials with the Texas Office of Inspector General delivered...

10/25/2015 - Agenda 21 is heating up in Austin, Texas, as "Professor Dumpster" rolls out his plans for ultra-compact living, which comes in the form of stackable apartments that can be relocated to other cities where similar models exist.
By "ultra-compact," we mean a maximum of 200 square feet of living space,...

10/19/2015 6:31:00 PM - In a decision that undoubtedly has the state's liberals in an uproar, Texas officials have informed Planned Parenthood (PP) clinics that it would be cutting off Medicaid funding, following the release of a series of undercover videos showing officials at some of the organization's facilities selling...

10/18/2015 - In the wake of the recent campus shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, Texas decided to join seven other states in allowing students to carry concealed weapons to class, in their dormitories and on campus, in both private and public schools throughout the state. However, more than...

10/8/2015 - With the click of a button, you can have a private car operated by a friendly, knowledgeable local driver waiting for you in minutes, quickly shuffling you to work, the grocery store or even home from the bar after you've had a few drinks.
However, this convenience, which has become invaluable to...

10/7/2015 - President Obama's decision to disregard federal immigration statutes calling for the deportation of illegal aliens and Congress' refusal to hold him accountable through constitutional processes are having deadly results.
As reported by Breitbart Texas, six illegal immigrants from Honduras and Guatemala...

9/23/2015 - A package of highly radioactive material that could have been used by a terrorist organization or a drug cartel to construct a so-called "dirty bomb" went missing for a time from Texas A&M University recently, CBS affiliate KBTX reported.
The radioactive material was supposed to be delivered to an...

9/17/2015 12:01:21 PM - A stubborn billionaire and a bought-out politician are preventing Texas parents from having a choice in how to best educate their children.
Charles Butt, the H-E-B supermarket mogul and Texas House Speaker Joe Straus are using their combined political influence to make sure the state does not pass...

9/16/2015 11:55:49 AM - A one-time supervisor for Texas Child Protective Services who was arrested for tampering with evidence in connection with a much-publicized 2012 case in Abilene involving the death of a child from dehydration and starvation is set to go on trial, as reported by local media.
KTXS 12 News in Abilene...

9/16/2015 - As the state of California becomes less free, more expensive, and harder to sustain, thousands of residents are voting with their feet for freer, cheaper environments that come with greater opportunities. Texas is the biggest recipient of that outflow.
The Washington Times reports that a recent analysis...

9/4/2015 - In yet another shocking case of what has become commonly termed "medical kidnapping," Child Protective Services authorities recently took action against the William Rembis family of Plano, Texas. Eleven children were removed from the home after the CPS was called in by neighbors, who were concerned...

9/1/2015 - It took three decades, but a Texas farmer has finally prevailed in a long-running legal battle with a federal agency.
As reported by Breitbart Texas, land owned by Tommy Henderson of Henrietta was taken from him 30 years ago by a court and given to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, an agency within...

8/26/2015 - When I saw photos appear on the internet about the construction of "guard towers" in Bastrop, Texas, I decided to go investigate for myself. We have a distribution center near Bastrop, so when I was there yesterday, I went to the new construction just off Hwy 71, across from the Best Buy, and start...

8/20/2015 6:34:55 PM - Forget fad diets... and don't leap into unhealthy shortcuts like bariatric surgery. The new weight loss paradigm is based on making informed, daily choices about healthy eating. Using this simple system of avoiding liquid sugars and eating whole foods like quinoa and fresh vegetables, a Texas woman...

8/18/2015 - Did the Civil War "settle" the issue of secession? Most Americans think so.
But not all. In fact, some continue to believe that secession remains an option for states who are dissatisfied with the level of interference in state affairs by the federal government, which seems to grow larger and more...

8/16/2015 - The Lone Star State has taken a massive step toward releasing the shackles of federal enslavement that continue to strangle the American public via the private central banking scam (the Federal Reserve). House Bill 483, which was recently signed into law by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, establishes the...

8/15/2015 - A Texas lawyer has criticized the state's Child Protective Services (CPS), describing it as a racket and "adoption mill" that has amassed too much power over the lives of children and parents in the state.
As reported by The Paper, a publication serving the North Houston region, Julie Ketterman of...

8/11/2015 - A measure introduced in the Texas legislature to require labeling for all foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) remains in the Committee on Public Health and has not been disposed of, meaning the bill still has a chance of surviving so it can be voted on by the full House and Senate.
The...

8/4/2015 - Despite a major setback last month when the U.S. House of Representatives voted 275-150 to pass legislation that would prohibit states from enacting the labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), the Right to Know movement continues to gain traction as it lays its eyes upon the Lone Star State.
(If...

7/26/2015 - The difference between two of the largest states in the country, California and Texas, could not be more stark, as a couple of recent actions taken by their legislators and governors indicate.
As NaturalNews readers know, in California recently state lawmakers passed - and Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown...

7/23/2015 - Newly elected Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is already working towards his reelection in four years and as such has begun to raise funds for that cause.
But Abbott has gone a step further in that process - choosing a high-tech, ultra-modern method of raising some coin.
Bitcoin, that is.
"Hello, Bitcoin...

7/22/2015 - Despite recent blowback from the American people over so-called "sanctuary city" policies, in which local officials conspire against federal immigration authorities to ensure that illegal immigrants are not rounded up and deported, other cities are working to implement similar policies, all while the...

7/20/2015 - The GOP-led Texas legislature has passed a measure that would allow law-abiding Texas residents to openly carry holstered side arms.
As reported by The Texas Tribune, House Bill 910, introduced by Rep. Larry Phillips, a Republican lawmaker from Sherman, passed on third reading. The Senate passed...

7/7/2015 - As I write this, the European Union is on the brink, financially, with Greece. The ruling Syriza party, socialists all, are preparing to default on what the country legitimately owes creditors at the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank. I say "legitimately," because the country's...

6/21/2015 - Because most people who read Natural News live in cities, I like to share photos from the ranch in Texas, where life is rugged, rural and self-reliant.
There's tremendous natural beauty on the ranch, and it's authentic beauty from Mother Nature. This isn't some city park, artificial Disney campus...

6/18/2015 - An elderly woman from the Central Texas city of Riesel, east of Waco, appears to have narrowly escaped being taken into custody by local police after a judge issued a warrant for her arrest. Her crime? Failing to appear before a court over her failure to mow her grass, which was in violation of a local...

6/16/2015 - Furthering the shameful legacy of nanny-state prohibition that continues to fester within its own borders and throughout the surrounding region, the supposedly liberty-minded State of Texas has decided to follow the lead of many other hypocritically repressive southern states in continuing to deny patients...

6/12/2015 - Hands up! Don't fruit!
That was the phrase police and regulators used to subdue two young entrepreneurs in Overton, Texas, yesterday, as they stood accused of attempting to poison the general public at large with lemonade they created in their mother's kitchen.
City Police Chief Clyde Carter,...

6/8/2015 - Most Texas peace officers are outstanding professionals as witnessed recently in Garland and Waco where local police officers protected innocent lives. But in this age of viral online videos, all it takes is one cop losing his cool and a kid with a video camera to paint all Texas police as racist badge...

5/30/2015 - The LivingFuel company (www.LivingFuel.com) has generously donated $88,000 worth of ultra-clean, high-protein superfood powders to victims of the recent floods in Central Texas, and the Natural News Store has taken charge of distributing the food aid items to local emergency response organizations on...

5/26/2015 - Less than 24 hours after I posted my Preparedness Pop Quiz that encouraged people to get off their butts and get prepared for the unexpected, an extreme, historic wave of torrential rains slammed Texas and Oklahoma. All of us in Central Texas rode it out as the sky darkened to almost nighttime conditions,...

5/22/2015 - It's part of a in nationwide trend among state governments: Quashing local ordinances that tend to curb business interests over concerns about environmental issues.
A recent measure is Texas is a case in point: Gov. Greg Abbott recently signed House Bill 40 into law, which now bans cities from regulating...

5/18/2015 - The difference between outbreaks of violence in Texas vs. other states is that fatalities in Texas rarely include innocent bystanders, whereas mass shootings in other states almost always produce large casualties of the innocent. This point was driven home today in a tragic biker gang "street war" that...

5/17/2015 - It's astonishing to learn the wrongheaded notions people hold in their heads in total contradiction to reality. For example, thanks to media disinfo, most Americans think of California as a lush, green environment while Texas is believed to be a dry, desolate, near-desert landscape.
The reality is...

5/12/2015 - Texas entrepreneur and U.S. Army veteran Jeremy Alcede has been imprisoned for 35 days (and counting) over his refusal to turn over his Facebook account password as part of a business bankruptcy court order. Federal bankruptcy Judge Jeff Bohm of the Southern District of Texas ordered Alcede thrown in...

5/5/2015 - Most Americans woke up the morning of May 4 to discover there had been another violent incident allegedly tied to militant Islam in Texas. As the day went on, we learned that two gunmen attempted to attack participants and observers of a Prophet Muhammad caricature contest in Garland, Texas, shooting...

5/4/2015 - There's a very simple reason why terrorists failed in yesterday's attack in Garland, Texas: Good guys with guns fired back, killing the assailants.
Compare this to the attack on the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo in France, where terrorists killed 12 people, all of whom were completely unarmed. Even...

4/28/2015 10:18:22 AM - A diverse array of Americans was present at the Bastrop County Commissioners Court at 9:00 AM on April 27, 2015. Citizens filled the seats in the courtroom, lined the walls and crowded the hall outside. Most of them were anxious to attend the meeting that would take place two hours later, where Operation...

4/16/2015 - The U.S. Army Special Operations Command (SOC) has filed a "Request to Conduct Realistic Military Training" to local officials in a half-dozen states in which some active duty elements of the U.S. Navy SEALs, Army Rangers, Army Green Berets and select Marine Corps units will simulate responding to domestic...

3/30/2015 - I'm always amazed at how people can be programmed by the mainstream media to ignore the obvious reality happening right in front of their eyes. Right now, America is being lulled into a hypnotic sense of denial while military training for martial law is happening right in their own neighborhoods and...

3/24/2015 - It seems the federal government has about as much tolerance (or as little tolerance) for secession as it did 150-odd years ago, which is to say, not much at all.
A recent "congressional" meeting of a pro-secessionist group called the Republic of Texas at a Bryan, Texas, meeting hall drew more than...

3/2/2015 - The National Vaccine Information Center has issued an alert for Texans to help stop forced vaccination and government coercion in their home state. A total of nine bills are currently pending in the Texas state legislature that threaten medical choice and fundamental human rights.
These laws are...

2/8/2015 - Child Protective Services (CPS) in Texas is under serious scrutiny these days as investigative reporters dig deeper into findings that the agency significantly faltered in their duties to help protect and save children.
It's simple. The job of CPS is to analyze and tend to every single neglect and...

1/23/2015 - It's official! As of today, Natural News has a print farm up and running near Austin, Texas, producing small but steady quantities of the very same 3D printable parts the world will soon be able to download for free from www.FoodRising.org
Photos below show some of the parts we have begun to produce...

11/26/2014 - Four people, including two brothers, recently died when a chemical leak at the Texas DuPont Chemical Refinery where they worked led to their inhalation of methyl mercaptan.(1,2)
The chemical, which is used to make insecticide for crops, is noted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...

11/18/2014 - Ever since the Republic of Texas agreed to become a part of a growing United States, there has remained an independence streak a country-mile-wide in what was, until the admission of Alaska, the biggest enclave in the Union.
"Independence-minded Texan," in fact, is a bit of a redundancy. So it comes...

10/8/2014 - The results of a new study regarding the environmental impacts of hydraulic fracking in the Marcellus and Barnett Shales are both interesting and surprising. Completed by researchers from five different universities, the study sought to discover the source of natural gas contamination in drinking-water...

10/5/2014 - The first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States may have exposed between 80 and 100 other people to the disease before being hospitalized, public health officials have announced.
When the Dallas man went to a hospital seeking treatment, he was sent home even though he told hospital...

10/5/2014 - As many had warned, epidemics like Ebola would cause frightened populations to press their governments to take authoritarian measures. That has happened already in West Africa, where the disease originated; borders have been shuttered, entire communities quarantined, and Liberia's armed forces were...

10/2/2014 - For the last few weeks, every time I've warned readers about the coming forced quarantines, isolation orders and government-mandated medical procedures that would be directed at American citizens, I was told that such claims were completely false and would never happen in America.
I guess Dallas...

8/11/2014 - A grassroots campaign to require honest GMO labeling on food products has been launched in Texas. Called "Label GMOs Texas," the campaign follows in the footsteps of the highly successful Vermont campaign which achieved victory earlier this year.
The Facebook page for the Texas campaign is available...

8/9/2014 - Is the state of Texas about ready to make a bad situation worse regarding GMO-created super weeds? It would seem so, based on recent reports.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently requesting comments regarding a petition filed by the Texas Department of Agriculture, which...

7/28/2014 1:19:48 PM - Federal regulators with the Environmental Protection Agency have denied a request from the state of Texas to permit its farmers to use a very powerful and dangerous herbicide against invasive "superweeds" that are threatening to overtake cotton crops.
EPA officials cited added risks to drinking water...

7/22/2014 - Fed up with the federal government's inaction and in response to citizen pleas to shore up border security, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has announced plans to deploy up to 1,000 Texas National Guard troops to support Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) officers attempting to staunch the flow of illegal...

6/29/2014 - The federal government's policies of allowing the mass migration of infectious disease-carrying people into the United States while transporting them to America's largest cities is a "perfect blueprint" for seeding a deadly pandemic. Right now, we are witnessing the engineering of a public health and...

6/25/2014 - The sea of humans that is streaming illegally into the United States at present has a lot more implications than just political, though that aspect of what is happening along the U.S. Southwest border is covered more frequently by the media than anything else.
But in reality, there are more important...

6/12/2014 - Conventional commercial agricultural methods which involve poisoning of the soil, monocultural practices, repeated plowing of fields and removal of trees are being blamed for returning "Dust Bowl" conditions across much of the Midwest and Southwest.
As noted by The Economic Collapse Blog, early explorers...

5/30/2014 - At least 33 communities in Texas could soon be completely out of water, some within three short months. Others say they could go dry in just 45 days.
Pebble Beach, a town northwest of San Antonio, has had their request approved for a $350,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to dig new,...

4/30/2014 - On the heels of its attempt to deploy a small army to Nevada in a bid to collect back fees from rancher Cliven Bundy, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) now has its sights set on grabbing land in Texas, only state officials there have a message for the federal agency: "Don't."
According to Breitbart...

4/21/2014 - Forget fat diets... and don't leap into unhealthy shortcuts like bariatric surgery. The new weight loss paradigm is based on making informed, daily choices about healthy eating. Using this simple system of avoiding liquid sugars and eating whole foods like quinoa and fresh vegetables, a Texas woman...

4/17/2014 - The State of Texas is growing thirstier with each and every passing day, as drought conditions continue to dry up the land. According to a new drought report from the Texas Water Development Board, the Lone Star State is now experiencing "worse" drought conditions in over two-thirds of the Texas territory....

4/15/2014 12:36:17 PM - California is not the only state having difficulty with moisture, as cities in Texas -- which have suffered from three years' worth of drought themselves -- continue to struggle to provide enough safe, fresh water for residents.
In fact, one of them, the north Texas city of Wichita Falls, is awaiting...

4/6/2014 - Those who have lived in America most of their lives know a little something of the Dust Bowl era during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Now, Texans are becoming concerned about yet another Dust Bowl scenario as droughts in various regions within the state are getting worse.
Although there were...

3/26/2014 - They are not inventors. They do not create anything. They don't produce anything. Rather, they are litigators, primarily, and their goal is to get rich off of other peoples' successful ideas.
They're called patent trolls, and like other scammers, they try to use the legal system to carry out their...

3/26/2014 - A local news team in McAllen, Texas, is reporting that hundreds of families in the region are sitting atop a substance believed to be highly toxic and explosive, just one of a series of recent reports from around the country that appear to signal an uptick in toxic spills tied to the energy industry.
According...

2/3/2014 - They say that politics is a blood sport, and there is no shortage of examples to prove that point. But in recent years, as the rancor has deepened between the two major parties, bad behavior has dramatically increased, and that is especially true on the left side of the political aisle.
One of the...

12/31/2013 - In some cases, art imitates life and vice versa. In this case, that is chilling.
Think 2002's Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise as a futuristic cop who works for a unit that arrests people for merely thinking about committing a crime.
That appears to be the case in Parker County, Texas, where...

11/8/2013 - Yet another study has linked fracking and similar oil and gas mining practices to earthquakes, this time in Texas.
The new study was conducted by researchers from China University of Geosciences and the University of Texas at Austin and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....

11/1/2013 - Perhaps no one politician in recent times except President Obama himself has been as demonized as U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican. During the recent budget battle, for example, Cruz was vilified by both the political Left and Right, often hearing the harshest criticism from members of his own party.
That...

10/12/2013 - New, experimental death row drugs are being formulated by pharmaceutical companies, and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is allegedly "experimenting with the new drugs and obscuring the information from the public." According to death row inmate Michael Yowell, who faces lethal injection in...

10/5/2013 - Everything's bigger and better in Texas. From our chicken fried steaks to our hairdos, more is best around here. That goes for wealth and politics, too, of course, and business deals. With the eye on the prize, many don't let little things like ethics get in the way of their success. Texas is indeed...

9/28/2013 - As Natural News has reported often, we respect the dedication and hard work of police officers, all of whom put their lives on the line for the communities they serve and protect.
But we've also noticed an increasingly disturbing trend - the militarization of police departments all around the country....

8/6/2013 9:12:54 AM - Climate change is taking a toll on grasslands across the West. Almost 87% of the region is in a drought.
Nevada is removing wild horses and stocks of cattle from federal rangelands, Wyoming is seeding clouds as part of a long-term "weather modification program," Dust Bowl conditions have been reported...

7/27/2013 - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has announced that women's health group Planned Parenthood, which provides early and late-term abortions at many of its clinics nationwide, has signed an agreement to pay the state $1.4 million in to settle fraud allegations surrounding billing to a health program...

7/20/2013 - Texas Gov. Rick Perry has appealed to businesses in high-tax states like California and New York to come to the Lone Star State if they want to thrive because of its low taxation and lighter regulatory burden. And indeed, many have - Texas is home to six of the top 10 U.S. cities with the highest employment...

7/8/2013 - The article which originally appeared here has been removed because it is no longer aligned with the science-based investigative mission of Natural News. In late 2013 / early 2014, Mike Adams (the Health Ranger), editor of Natural News, transitioned from outspoken activist to environmental scientist....

6/8/2013 - The drumbeat of liberty and freedom continues to beat the loudest in Texas, as lawmakers there recently passed a bill that would outlaw the use of drones for surveillance.
According to the Houston Chronicle the bill, which has been passed by both the House and Senate, would also permit Texans to...

5/18/2013 - Giant snails appear to be invading Texas, according to new reports, and some health experts worry that the unusual creatures might begin spreading a disease that could be deadly to humans. As reported by NBC News, a Houston woman recently discovered what is believed to be the first known instance of...

5/16/2013 - There is a potential scandal brewing in Texas involving a "long-term property seizure scheme" involving the Tarrant County Regional Water District, in which its employees have been abusing eminent domain privileges and forcing homeowners and businesses off of their properties, then awarding no-bid contracts...

5/12/2013 - The state of Texas continues to fight back hard against federal intrusions, especially in the area of gun control as President Obama and some Washington lawmakers push for new laws infringing upon the Second Amendment's right of Americans to keep and bear arms.
In a vote of 100-47, the Texas House...

5/10/2013 - Millions of people living in the Dallas-Forth Worth Metroplex region of North Texas have basically been getting ripped off on their electric bills since at least 2008, and very few of them are the wiser, according to new reports. A federally-mandated utility tax levied on customers by power company...

5/7/2013 - A new measure that has been passed out of a Texas Senate committee and is set to be debated by the full chamber would allow residents of the state to opt-out of having to use an automated electric meter.
The measure, SB241, would also require "a study on the health effects of advanced meters," according...

5/1/2013 - New information has surfaced in the West, Texas, explosion case that could alter the course of the ongoing investigation into what caused the disaster. As it turns out, West Fertilizer Co., which used to be known as Texas Grain Storage Inc., filed a lawsuit under its former name against biotechnology...

4/25/2013 - Living up to a promise he made last fall, Representative David Simpson of Longview, Texas, has once again reintroduced a bill that would reign in the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and its flagrantly unconstitutional abuses at Texas airports. As reported by CBS News, the latest version...

4/13/2013 - The article which originally appeared here has been removed because it is no longer aligned with the science-based investigative mission of Natural News. In late 2013 / early 2014, Mike Adams (the Health Ranger), editor of Natural News, transitioned from outspoken activist to environmental scientist....

4/2/2013 - The seizure of privately held savings accounts by the government of Cyprus, in order to finance a European Union-led bailout, is having reverberations far beyond the shores of that bankrupt nation. In fact, they are being felt as far away as Texas, where lawmakers there are increasingly concerned that...

4/1/2013 - The mass shooting that the federal government and mainstream media claim took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, back in December has prompted teachers everywhere to reconsider their own role in preventing potential future shootings from taking place. And one way some of...

3/29/2013 - Increasingly, Texas is one of a handful of states that are becoming known as bastions of liberty in a nation increasingly dominated by Federalists and authoritarians - men and women appointed in positions of bureaucratic power who operate without fear of reprisal from on high in Washington, D.C.
So...

3/18/2013 - Legislation currently and quietly making its way through the Texas State Senate threatens to overtly trample the personal property rights of Lone Star State residents in the name of protecting public health. If passed, Senate Bill 186 would allow government officials to illegally trespass onto private...

3/14/2013 - If you thought the so-called "great state" of Texas was a bastion of freedom, liberty, and minimal government intrusion, think again. Efforts are currently in the works in the form of two new Senate bills to seize parental sovereignty rights and allow minors living in the Lone Star State to consent...

3/13/2013 - No state is perfect, but Texans like to think theirs is pretty close, especially when it comes to whose elected officials are more apt to pursue policies and legislation which enhance freedom, liberty and self-reliance.
Privacy advocates and experts say two new pieces of legislation dealing with...

2/24/2013 - A consumer and voter advocacy group has launched an online petition drive seeking support for a pair of bills in the Texas Legislature that would prevent employers from asking employees to provide their passwords to social media sites.
The petition's sponsor, SignOn.org, which is associated with...

2/14/2013 - Raiding small dairy farms for selling raw milk has become an active form of state terrorism throughout North America. The farms are usually small and the farmers are not well off.
Yet they're often shut down with short or no notice and forced to destroy or give up their raw dairy products for the...

2/12/2013 - Texas lawmakers are considering what would become the toughest anti-drone law in the nation, following revelations the Obama administration has legally justified targeting American citizens only suspected of engaging in terrorist activities with drones.
Under a measure filed by state Rep. Lance Gooden,...

1/24/2013 - In response to calls from President Obama and his allies in Congress for expanded gun control measures, a movement is spreading among local sheriffs: More of them are standing up and saying publicly they won't enforce any new laws they consider unconstitutional, specifically any new statutes calling...

1/18/2013 - The state of Texas has a reputation for being fiercely independent, a trait that has been on display again recently as the Obama administration and some members of Congress consider sweeping new gun control legislation.
In response to legislative measures already proposed, as well as others said...

1/15/2013 - The article which originally appeared here has been removed because it is no longer aligned with the science-based investigative mission of Natural News. In late 2013 / early 2014, Mike Adams (the Health Ranger), editor of Natural News, transitioned from outspoken activist to environmental scientist....

12/20/2012 - As more police chiefs and security experts call for arming educators in the wake of the horrific mass murder of 20 first graders and six adults, at least a few politicians who are looking outside the box for better solutions than gun bans have begun to back similar plans.
One politician backing the...

12/4/2012 - After engaging in more than 30 years of vicious and relentless persecution, the Texas Medical Board (TMB) has finally decided to drop its weapons and leave cancer treatment innovator Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski alone, according to new reports. The surprising capitulation came after a panel of judges from...

11/29/2012 - The statists have now set their sights on our children, as efforts to train them at a younger age to be compliant without question has now spread to the public school system.
As we've reported, Texas high school student Andrea Hernandez, an exceptional student who was enrolled in advanced coursework,...

11/21/2012 - Once again leading the charge to restore freedom and end the incessant reign of federal terror on American citizens is the state of Texas, which recently initiated the process of effectively castrating the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and stopping the rogue agency from freely molesting...

11/20/2012 - Dissatisfaction is spreading rapidly throughout a very divided nation in the wake of the Nov. 6 elections, as citizens in nearly every state have begun petitioning the federal government to leave the union.
The secession effort is being led by the independence-minded citizens of Texas, with more...

11/15/2012 - The reaction to my recent article on why Texas is uniquely positioned to secede from the union and run itself as an independent nation state reveals that very few people on the internet have any real knowledge of history. (Gee, is anyone surprised that people on Facebook have no clue what they're talking...

11/15/2012 - Citizens from all 50 U.S. states have now filed petitions with the White House asking for "peaceful secession" from the union. According to Daily Caller, more than 675,000 petition signatures have now been collected.
The Texas petition now has over 100,000 signatures, and more signatures are appearing...

10/31/2012 - A major rift has formed at the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), one of the largest publicly-funded efforts by a state government to promote conventional cancer research and drug development, after 33 scientists, including the group's chief scientific officer, suddenly resigned...

10/15/2012 - The surveillance society continues to expand across America, with those who refuse to go along subject to recriminations and reprisals.
That's what's happening to students at John Jay High School and Anson Jones Middle School in San Antonio whose parents refuse to have their children tracked by school...

8/26/2012 - There is good reason for legitimate optimism right now, even in the face of an approaching financial collapse and the rise of the new American police state. It sounds contradictory, but there is a silver lining to all this. There's a catch, however: The silver lining only applies to those who learn...

7/18/2012 - Delegates from the Texas Republican Party recently gathered in Fort Worth to iron out their party's official 2012 platform. And in the official platform document, it is spelled out that the Texas Republican Party is in full support of mandatory labeling of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), legalized...

6/15/2012 - A Texas couple has filed a lawsuit against several parties after a convoy of local law enforcement officers, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and various media outlets showed up at their house one day in search of a mass grave filled with dead...

3/29/2012 - A state health agency in Texas is investigating dozens of healthcare providers who gave out prescriptions for large amounts of powerful psychiatric drugs, some of them to children, after red flags were raised about the medications by a U.S. senator.
According to the Dallas Star-Telegram, the Texas...

3/10/2012 - Medicare and Medicaid, the two largest government-run health care programs that cover health services for elderly, disabled, and low-income individuals, cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars a year just in fraudulent claims. And an ongoing crackdown on such fraud being undertaken by the U.S. Department...

2/13/2012 - Former presidential candidate and Texas Governor Rick Perry has signed into law new legislation that requires all college students, including those living off campus, to get injected with a meningitis vaccine. The new guidelines, which reportedly received bipartisan support, require that all students...

1/19/2012 - The weaponization of vaccines just took another leap forward in America with the recent air-dropping of rabies vaccines by the Texas Department of State Health Services. Using a battery of small planes based out of Del Rio, Texas recently dropped 1.8 million edible vaccine packets over 7,700 square...

12/14/2011 - The article which originally appeared here has been removed because it is no longer aligned with the science-based investigative mission of Natural News. In late 2013 / early 2014, Mike Adams (the Health Ranger), editor of Natural News, transitioned from outspoken activist to environmental scientist....

12/8/2011 - A historic drought that has stricken much of Central Texas over the past several months has caused some rivers and water reservoirs in the Lone Star State to run dangerously low. But one Central Texas town, Groesbeck, located about two hours south of Dallas, looks like it will avoid completely running...

11/17/2011 - The medical establishment in Texas refuses to give up its vicious agenda to destroy the work and career of Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, the famed cancer doctor whose innovative and specialized antineoplaston (ANP) treatments have helped cure many patients of supposedly "incurable" cancers. The Alliance...

9/28/2011 - Reports are still streaming in of girls in Texas as young as 9 years old having outbreaks of genital warts, going into convulsions, becoming paralyzed, slipping into comas, and even dying after being force-vaccinated by the highly controversial HPV vaccine Gardasil.
Thousands of well-documented cases...

9/24/2011 - The more Texas Gov. Rick Perry tries to defend his decision to sign an executive order in 2007 mandating that all young girls in Texas receive vaccinations against the human papillomavirus (HPV) before being admitted to school, the more he exposes himself as a lying scoundrel that is unfit to govern...

9/12/2011 - The article which originally appeared here has been removed because it is no longer aligned with the science-based investigative mission of Natural News. In late 2013 / early 2014, Mike Adams (the Health Ranger), editor of Natural News, transitioned from outspoken activist to environmental scientist....

9/7/2011 - As fires raged across central Texas for the past three days, local citizens sprang into action to protect their lives and property. Local churches opened their doors and began hosting refugees left homeless by the fires which have now destroyed more than 1,000 homes and 100,000 acres across the state...

9/4/2011 - High winds whipped up devastating fires across Texas Sunday and sent them coursing through the tinderbox landscape at record speed. Across central Texas, spanning Austin, Waco and even approaching Shreveport, wildfires leapt across the drought-stricken state with astounding speed.
Many thousands...

9/4/2011 - As I've been living in Austin, Texas, for a while, I thought I would report on the Texas drought situation first hand. How bad is the drought situation here? It's critically bad, actually. Even the wildlife are facing starvation and dying of thirst. I saw some wild pigs the other night (they're quite...

8/23/2011 - Rick Perry has officially announced he is running for president, and we now face the possibility having a tyrant in control of our country. Not only does Perry have a bad track record - including having the death and harm of young women on his hands -- he "has shown himself to be the most duplicitous,...

8/21/2011 - TV station KHOU of Texas, reported a cover up conspiracy regarding radioactive levels in Texas drinking water in May 2011. The cover up efforts were known as high as the Texas governor Rick Perry's office and allowed to continue. In a small way, this reflects what's been happening with the Fukushima...

7/1/2011 - The infamous US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) anti-groping bill that floundered around the halls of the Texas State Capitol for a while has officially died, according to a recent report in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. After getting introduced, then fading away, then getting introduced...

6/26/2011 - Federal attempts to illegally control what types of light bulbs Americans are permitted to buy and use have been thwarted by the great state of Texas, thanks to the recent passage of HB 2510. The bill effectively exempts incandescent light bulbs made and sold within the state of Texas from having to...

6/22/2011 - Despite countless pages of rhetoric about "defending the Constitution and demonstrating the harm caused by excesses in Washington" in his new book Fed Up, Texas Gov. Rick Perry had all but abandoned his seeming interest in supporting a bill to restrict the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA)...

5/25/2011 - The article which originally appeared here has been removed because it is no longer aligned with the science-based investigative mission of Natural News. In late 2013 / early 2014, Mike Adams (the Health Ranger), editor of Natural News, transitioned from outspoken activist to environmental scientist....

5/25/2011 - The article which originally appeared here has been removed because it is no longer aligned with the science-based investigative mission of Natural News. In late 2013 / early 2014, Mike Adams (the Health Ranger), editor of Natural News, transitioned from outspoken activist to environmental scientist....

5/14/2011 - Texas is a fiercely independent-minded state, and it also turns out that Texans are tired of being sexually molested by government agents at the airport. That's why Texas State Congressman Rep. David Simpson decided to do something about it: He sponsored a bill which makes it a crime for security agents...

5/5/2011 - - Well, it was bound to happen. Someone has finally gotten so tired of the X-rated pat-downs at airports they are trying to criminalize it.
Tired of waiting for the federal government to do the right thing and uphold Americans' Fourth Amendment right to privacy and protections against unreasonable...